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(12) Patent: (11) CA 2982868
(54) English Title: METHOD FOR PERFORMING VIRTUAL OPERATIONS ON A CHARACTER OBJECT, TERMINAL, AND COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM
(54) French Title: METHODE D'EXECUTION D'OPERATIONS VIRTUELLES SUR UN OBJET DE PERSONNAGE, UN TERMINAL ET UN SUPPORT DE STOCKAGE INFORMATIQUE
Status: Granted
Bibliographic Data
(51) International Patent Classification (IPC):
  • G06F 3/04842 (2022.01)
  • G06F 3/0481 (2022.01)
  • A63F 13/2145 (2014.01)
  • A63F 13/53 (2014.01)
  • A63F 13/55 (2014.01)
  • G06F 3/04883 (2022.01)
(72) Inventors :
  • TANG, YONG (China)
  • WENG, JIANMIAO (China)
  • CHEN, YU (China)
  • GONG, WEI (China)
(73) Owners :
  • TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED (China)
(71) Applicants :
  • TENCENT TECHNOLOGY (SHENZHEN) COMPANY LIMITED (China)
(74) Agent: CASSAN MACLEAN IP AGENCY INC.
(74) Associate agent:
(45) Issued: 2023-07-18
(86) PCT Filing Date: 2016-05-04
(87) Open to Public Inspection: 2017-04-06
Examination requested: 2017-10-16
Availability of licence: N/A
(25) Language of filing: English

Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT): Yes
(86) PCT Filing Number: PCT/CN2016/081041
(87) International Publication Number: WO2017/054450
(85) National Entry: 2017-10-16

(30) Application Priority Data:
Application No. Country/Territory Date
201510633275.3 China 2015-09-29

Abstracts

English Abstract

An information processing method, a terminal (101, 70) and a computer storage medium. By executing a software application on a processor (71) of a terminal and performing rendering on a display (72) of the terminal, a graphical user interface is obtained; and the processor (71), the graphical user interface and the software application are implemented in a game system. The method comprises: rendering at least one virtual resource object (201, 301, 401) on the graphical user interface; at least one character device object deployed in at least one character selection region (802, 91) of the graphical user interface comprising at least one window position (202, 302, 402); and when a view acquisition gesture regarding at least one character operation object (b11, 911) in the character device object is detected, rendering a view image captured by a virtual camera associated with the at least one character operation object (b11, 911) rendered on the graphical user interface.


French Abstract

L'invention concerne un procédé de traitement d'informations, un terminal (101, 70) et un support d'informations pour ordinateur. Grâce à l'exécution d'une application logicielle sur un processeur (71) d'un terminal et à la réalisation d'un rendu sur un afficheur (72) dudit terminal, une interface utilisateur graphique est obtenue, et le processeur (71), l'interface utilisateur graphique et l'application logicielle sont mis en uvre dans un système de jeu. Le procédé comprend : le rendu d'au moins un objet de ressource virtuelle (201, 301, 401) sur l'interface utilisateur graphique ; la présence d'au moins une position de fenêtre (202, 302, 402) dans au moins un objet de dispositif de personnage déployé dans au moins une région de sélection de personnage (802, 91) de l'interface utilisateur graphique ; et, lorsqu'un geste d'acquisition de vue concernant au moins un objet d'opération de personnage (b11, 911) dans l'objet de dispositif de personnage est détecté, le rendu d'une image de vue capturée par une caméra virtuelle associée audit objet d'opération de personnage (b11, 911) rendu sur l'interface utilisateur graphique.
Claims

Note: Claims are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.


CLAIMS
What is claimed is:
1. An information processing method, a software application being executed on
a processor
of a terminal and rendering being performed on a display of the terminal, to
obtain a graphical
user interface (GUI), the processor, the GUI, and the software application
being implemented in
a game system, and the method comprising:
performing rendering in the GUI, to obtain at least one virtual resource
object, at least one
of the virtual resource object being configured as a first character object
that performs a first
virtual operation according to an input first user command;
deploying in such a manner that at least one character container object in at
least one
character selection area in the GUI comprises at least one window location;
detecting a second character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to
the first
character object meets a first preset condition, and performing, according to
a first display
parameter, rendering on a detected character operation object associated with
the second
character object in the at least one window location; and
performing, by the first character object, at least one of the first virtual
operation on a
corresponding second character object when a selection operation gesture on at
least one
character operation object on which rendering is performed according to the
first display
parameter and that is in the character container object is detected.
2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the detecting a second character
object that is
in the GUI and whose distance to the first character object meets a first
preset condition
comprises:
detecting a second character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to
the first
character object is less than a first preset threshold.
3. The method according to claim 1, wherein before detecting the selection
operation
gesture on the at least one character operation object on which rendering is
performed according
to the first display parameter and that is in the character container object,
the method further
comprises:
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detecting, in second character objects whose distances to the first character
object meet the
first preset condition, at least some second character objects whose distances
to the first character
object meet a second preset condition, and performing, according to a second
display parameter,
rendering on character operation objects associated with the detected at least
some second
character objects in the at least one window location, wherein
a display effect obtained by performing rendering according to the second
display parameter
is different from a display effect obtained by performing rendering according
to the first display
parameter.
4. The method according to claim 3, wherein the detecting, in second character
objects
whose distances to the first character object meet the first preset condition,
at least some second
character objects whose distances to the first character object meet a second
preset condition
comprises:
detecting, in the second character objects whose distances to the first
character object meet
the first preset condition, a second character object whose distance to the
first character object
reaches a second preset threshold, wherein the second preset threshold is
greater than or equal to
the first preset threshold.
5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the method further comprises:
obtaining status
attribute information of a second character object in the GUI, and
synchronizing the status
attribute information to a server; and
obtaining, from the server, status attribute information of a character object
associated with
a character operation object in the character container object.
6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the method further comprises:
performing,
according to the obtained status attribute information in a preset manner,
rendering on the
character operation object associated with the second character object in a
corresponding
window location.
7. A terminal, the terminal comprising: a rendering processing unit, a
deployment unit, a
detection unit, and an operation execution unit,
the rendering processing unit being configured to: execute a software
application and
perform rendering, to obtain a graphical user interface (GUI); and perform
rendering in the GUI,
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to obtain at least one virtual resource object, at least one of the virtual
resource object being
configured as a first character object that performs a first virtual operation
according to an input
first user command; and being further configured to perform, according to a
first display
parameter, rendering on a character operation object detected by the detection
unit and associated
with the second character object in the at least one window location;
the deployment unit being configured to: deploy in such a manner that at least
one character
container object in at least one character selection area in the GUI comprises
at least one window
location;
the detection unit being configured to detect a second character object that
is in the GUI and
whose distance to the first character object meets a first preset condition;
and
the operation execution unit being configured to: perform, by the first
character object, at
least one of the first virtual operation on a corresponding second character
object when a
selection operation gesture on at least one character operation object on
which rendering is
performed according to the first display parameter and that is in the
character container object is
detected.
8. The terminal according to claim 7, wherein the detection unit is configured
to detect a
second character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to the first
character object is less
than a first preset threshold.
9. The terminal according to claim 7, wherein the detection unit is further
configured to
detect, in second character objects whose distances to the first character
object meet the first
preset condition, at least some second character objects whose distances to
the first character
object meet a second preset condition; and
correspondingly, the rendering processing unit is configured to: perform,
according to a
second display parameter, rendering on character operation objects associated
with the at least
some second character objects detected by the detection unit in the at least
one window location,
wherein a display effect obtained by performing rendering according to the
second display
parameter is different from a display effect obtained by performing rendering
according to the
first display parameter.
10. The terminal according to claim 9, wherein the detection unit is
configured to detect, in
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the second character objects whose distances to the first character object
meet the first preset
condition, a second character object whose distance to the first character
object reaches a second
preset threshold, wherein the second preset threshold is greater than or equal
to the first preset
threshold.
11. The terminal according to claim 7, wherein the terminal further comprises
an obtaining
unit and a communications unit, wherein
the obtaining unit is configured to obtain status attribute information of a
second character
object in the GUI; and
the communications unit is configured to: synchronize the status attribute
information
obtained by the obtaining unit to a server, and obtain, from the server,
status attribute
information of a character object associated with a character operation object
in the character
container object.
12. The terminal according to claim 11, wherein the rendering processing unit
is configured
to perform, according to the obtained status attribute information in a preset
manner, rendering
on the character operation object associated with the second character object
in a corresponding
window location.
13. A terminal, the terminal comprising: a processor and a display; the
processor being
configured to: execute a software application and perform rendering on the
display, to obtain a
graphical user interface (GUI); and the processor, the GUI, and the software
application being
implemented on a game system; and
the processor being further configured to perform rendering in the GUI, to
obtain at least
one virtual resource object, at least one of the virtual resource object being
configured as a first
character object that performs a first virtual operation according to an input
first user command;
deploy in such a manner that at least one character container object in at
least one character
selection area in the GUI comprises at least one window location;
detect a second character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to the
first character
object meets a first preset condition, and perform, according to a first
display parameter,
rendering on a detected character operation object associated with the second
character object in
the at least one window location; and

perform, by the first character object, at least one of the first virtual
operation on a
corresponding second character object when detecting a selection operation
gesture on at least
one character operation object on which rendering is performed according to
the first display
parameter and that is in the character container object.
14. The terminal according to claim 13, wherein the detecting, by the
processor, a second
character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to the first character
object meets a first
preset condition comprises:
detecting a second character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to
the first
character object is less than a first preset threshold.
15. The terminal according to claim 13, wherein the processor is further
configured to:
before detecting the selection operation gesture on the at least one character
operation object on
which rendering is performed according to the first display parameter and that
is in the character
container object, detect, in second character objects whose distances to the
first character object
meet the first preset condition, at least some second character objects whose
distances to the first
character object meet a second preset condition, and perform, according to a
second display
parameter, rendering on character operation objects associated with the
detected at least some
second character objects in the at least one window location, wherein a
display effect obtained by
performing rendering according to the second display parameter is different
from a display effect
obtained by performing rendering according to the first display parameter.
16. The terminal according to claim 15, wherein the detecting, by the
processor in second
character objects whose distances to the first character object meet the first
preset condition, at
least some second character objects whose distances to the first character
object meet a second
preset condition comprises:
detecting, in the second character objects whose distances to the first
character object meet
the first preset condition, a second character object whose distance to the
first character object
reaches a second preset threshold, wherein the second preset threshold is
greater than or equal to
the first preset threshold.
17. The terminal according to claim 13, wherein the terminal further comprises
a
communications device, wherein
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the processor is further configured to: obtain status attribute information of
a second
character object in the GUI, and synchronize the status attribute information
to a server by using
the communications device; and obtain, from the server by using the
communications interface,
status attribute information of a character object associated with a character
operation object in
the character container object.
18. The terminal according to claim 17, wherein the processor is further
configured to
perform, according to the obtained status attribute information in a preset
manner, rendering on
the character operation object associated with the second character object in
a corresponding
window location.
19. A computer storage medium, a computer executable instruction being stored
in the
computer storage medium, and the computer executable instruction being
configured to perform
the information processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 6.
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Description

Note: Descriptions are shown in the official language in which they were submitted.


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INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, TERMINAL, AND
COMPUTER STORAGE MEDIUM
FIELD OF THE TECHNOLOGY
[0001] The present disclosure relates to information processing
technologies, and in
particular, to an information processing method, a terminal, and a computer
storage medium.
BACKGROUND OF THE DISCLOSURE
[0002] With rapid development of Internet technologies and gradual
popularization of
large-screen and super-screen intelligent terminals, a processor of an
intelligent terminal has an
increasingly high processing capability, so that many applications that
implement control based
on man-machine interaction appear on a large screen or a super screen. In a
process of
implementing control based on man-machine interaction, multiple users may run
different
interaction modes by creating groups in one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-
many forms, to
obtain different interaction results. For example, in a graphical user
interface (GUI) obtained
through rendering on a large screen or a super screen, after multiple users
are grouped into two
different groups, by means of control processing in man-machine interaction,
information
exchange may be performed between the different groups, and different
interaction results are
obtained according to a response to information exchange; and by means of
control processing in
man-machine interaction, information exchange may further be performed between
group
members in a same group, and different interaction results are obtained
according to a response
to information exchange.
[0003] In the existing technology, in an information exchange process,
because a target
group member frequently moves, or because there are a large number of target
group members
and the target group members frequently move, when a target group member is
selected, multiple
times of trigger operations are required. A trigger operation process has a
relatively long time
and has low accuracy, and requirements for rapidness and accuracy cannot be
met in the
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information exchange process. In related technologies, there is still no
effective solution to the
problem currently.
SUMMARY
[0004] Embodiments of the present invention expect to provide an
information
processing method, a terminal, and a computer storage medium, so as to rapidly
and accurately
select a target object in an information exchange process, thereby improving
user experience.
[0005] To achieve the foregoing objective, the technical solutions in the
embodiments of
the present invention are implemented as follows:
[0006] An embodiment of the present invention provides an information
processing
method, a software application being executed on a processor of a terminal and
rendering being
performed on a display of the terminal, to obtain a GUI, the processor, the
GUI, and the software
application being implemented in a game system, and the method including:
performing rendering in the GUI, to obtain at least one virtual resource
object, at
least one of the virtual resource object being configured as a first character
object that performs a
first virtual operation according to an input first user command;
deploying in such a manner that at least one character container object in at
least
one character selection area in the GUI includes at least one window location;
and
detecting a second character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to
the
first character object meets a first preset condition, and performing,
according to a first display
parameter, rendering on a detected character operation object associated with
the second
character object in the at least one window location; and
performing, by the first character object, at least one of the first virtual
operation
on a corresponding second character object when a selection operation gesture
on at least one
character operation object on which rendering is performed according to the
first display
parameter and that is in the character container object is detected.
[0007] An embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal,
the terminal
including: a rendering processing unit, a deployment unit, a detection unit,
and an operation
execution unit,
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the rendering processing unit being configured to: execute a software
application
and perform rendering, to obtain a GUI; and perform rendering in the GUI, to
obtain at least one
virtual resource object, at least one of the virtual resource object being
configured as a first
character object that performs a first virtual operation according to an input
first user command;
and being further configured to perform, according to a first display
parameter, rendering on a
character operation object detected by the detection unit and associated with
the second character
object in the at least one window location;
the deployment unit being configured to: deploy in such a manner that at least
one
character container object in at least one character selection area in the GUI
includes at least one
window location;
the detection unit being configured to detect a second character object that
is in
the GUI and whose distance to the first character object meets a first preset
condition; and
the operation execution unit being configured to: perform, by the first
character
object, at least one of the first virtual operation on a corresponding second
character object when
a selection operation gesture on at least one character operation object on
which rendering is
performed according to the first display parameter and that is in the
character container object is
detected.
[0008] An
embodiment of the present invention further provides a terminal, the terminal
including: a processor and a display; the processor being configured to:
execute a software
application and perform rendering on the display, to obtain a GUI; and the
processor, the GUI,
and the software application being implemented on a game system; and
the processor being further configured to perform rendering in the GUI, to
obtain
at least one virtual resource object, at least one of the virtual resource
object being configured as
a first character object that performs a first virtual operation according to
an input first user
command;
deploy in such a manner that at least one character container object in at
least one
character selection area in the GUI includes at least one window location;
detect a second character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to the
first
character object meets a first preset condition, and perform, according to a
first display
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parameter, rendering on a detected character operation object associated with
the second
character object in the at least one window location; and
perform, by the first character object, at least one of the first virtual
operation on a
corresponding second character object when detecting a selection operation
gesture on at least
one character operation object on which rendering is performed according to
the first display
parameter and that is in the character container object.
[0009] An embodiment of the present invention further provides a computer
storage
medium, a computer executable instruction being stored in the computer storage
medium, and
the computer executable instruction being configured to perform the
information processing
method in the embodiments of the present invention.
[0010] According to the information processing method, the terminal, and
the computer
storage medium in the embodiments of the present invention, by means of a
window location in
a character container object deployed in a character selection area in a GUI,
rendering is
performed, in a corresponding window location, on a character operation object
associated with a
second character object that performs information exchange with a first
character object, and
rendering is performed, according to a first display parameter, on a character
operation object
associated with a second character object whose distance to the first
character object meets a first
preset condition, that is, rendering is performed, according to the first
display parameter, on a UI
avatar associated with the second character object whose distance to the first
character object
meets a first preset condition, so that the UI avatar has a display effect
that is different from that
of another UI avatar, and when a user selects a target character operation
object, it is convenient
for the user to rapidly and accurately select a target character object based
on the different
display effect by means of a selection operation gesture on the character
operation object,
thereby greatly improving operation experience of the user in an interaction
process.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
[0011] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an application architecture of
information
exchange in an information processing method according to an embodiment of the
present
invention;
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[0012] FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of an information processing method
according to
Embodiment 1 of the present invention;
[0013] FIG. 3 is a first schematic diagram of a GUI in an information
processing method
according to an embodiment of the present invention;
[0014] FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a principle of detecting a second
character object
whose distance to a first character object meets a first preset condition in
an information
processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;
[0015] FIG. 5 is a second schematic diagram of a GUI in an information
processing
method according to an embodiment of the present invention;
[0016] FIG. 6 is a schematic flowchart of an information processing method
according to
Embodiment 2 of the present invention;
[0017] FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a principle of detecting a second
character object
whose distance to a first character object meets a second preset condition in
an information
processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;
[0018] FIG. 8 is a schematic flowchart of an information processing method
according to
Embodiment 3 of the present invention;
[0019] FIG. 9 is a third schematic diagram of a GUI in an information
processing method
according to an embodiment of the present invention;
[0020] FIG. 10 is a schematic application diagram of interaction in an
information
processing method according to an embodiment of the present invention;
[0021] FIG. 11 is a fourth schematic diagram of a GUI in an information
processing
method according to an embodiment of the present invention;
[0022] FIG. 12 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to
Embodiment
4 of the present invention; and
[0023] FIG. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to
Embodiment
of the present invention; and
[0024] FIG. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according to
Embodiment
6 of the present invention.
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DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS
[0025] The present disclosure is further described in detail below with
reference to the
accompanying drawings and specific embodiments.
[0026] FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of an application architecture of
information
exchange in an information processing method according to an embodiment of the
present
invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the application architecture includes: a server
101 and at least one
terminal. As shown in the application architecture, the terminal includes: a
terminal 102, a
terminal 103, a terminal 104, a terminal 105, and a terminal 106. The at least
one terminal may
establish a connection to the server 101 by using a network 100 (such as a
wired network or a
wireless network). Specifically, the terminal includes a mobile phone, a
desktop computer, a PC,
an all-in-one PC, and other types.
[0027] In this embodiment, a processor of the terminal can execute a
software application
and perform rendering on a display of the terminal, to obtain a GUI. The
processor, the GUI, and
the software application are implemented on a game system. In this embodiment,
in a process of
implementing the processor, the GUI, and the software application in the game
system, the at
least one terminal may perform information exchange with the server 101 by
using a wired
network or a wireless network, to implement a one-to-one or many-to-many (such
as three-to-
three or five-to-five) application mode scenario in the game system. In the
one-to-one application
scenario, a virtual resource object in a graphical user object obtained
through rendering by a
terminal may perform information exchange with a virtual resource object
preset in the game
system (which may be understood as man vs machine), that is, the terminal
performs information
exchange with the server. Alternatively, in the one-to-one application
scenario, a virtual resource
object in a graphical user object obtained through rendering by a terminal may
perform
information exchange with a virtual resource object in a graphical user object
obtained through
rendering by another terminal, for example, a virtual resource object in a
graphical user object
obtained through rendering by the terminal 102 performs information exchange
with a virtual
resource object in a graphical user object obtained through rendering by the
terminal 103. In the
many-to-many application mode scenario, using the three-to-three application
mode scenario as
an example, virtual resource objects in graphical user objects that are
obtained through rendering
respectively performed by a terminal 1, a terminal 2, and a terminal 3 are
grouped into a first
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group, virtual resource objects in graphical user objects that are obtained
through rendering
respectively performed by a terminal 4, a terminal 5, and a terminal 6 are
grouped into a second
group, and a group member in the first group performs information exchange
with a group
member in the second group.
[0028] The example in FIG. 1 is only an example of an application
architecture for
implementing the embodiments of the present invention, and the embodiments of
the present
invention are not limited to the application architecture in FIG. 1. Based on
the application
architecture, various embodiments of the present invention are provided.
Embodiment 1
[0029] This embodiment of the present invention provides an information
processing
method. FIG. 2 is a schematic flowchart of the information processing method
according to
Embodiment 1 of the present invention. The information processing method is
applied to a
terminal. A software application is executed on a processor of the terminal
and rendering is
performed on a display of the terminal, to obtain a GUI. The processor, the
GUI, and the
software application are implemented in a game system. As shown in FIG. 2, the
method
includes the following steps:
[0030] Step 201: Perform rendering in the GUI, to obtain at least one
virtual resource
object, at least one of the virtual resource object being configured as a
first character object that
performs a first virtual operation according to an input first user command.
[0031] Step 202: Deploy in such a manner that at least one character
container object in
at least one character selection area in the GUI includes at least one window
location.
[0032] Step 203: Detect a second character object that is in the GUI and
whose distance
to the first character object meets a first preset condition, and perform,
according to a first
display parameter, rendering on a detected character operation object
associated with the second
character object in the at least one window location.
[0033] Step 204: The first character object performs at least one of the
first virtual
operation on a corresponding second character object when detecting a
selection operation
gesture on at least one character operation object on which rendering is
performed according to
the first display parameter and that is in the character container object.
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[003 In this embodiment, the GUI includes the at least one character
selection area, the
character selection area includes the at least one character container object,
and the character
container object includes the at least one window location. Corresponding
character operation
objects are carried in at least some window locations. The character operation
object may be
represented by using an identifier (the identifier may be an avatar) of a
character object
associated with the character operation object in the GUI. Herein, the second
character object
associated with the character operation object and the first character object
belong to different
groups. A manner of rendering on the character container object in the
character selection area
includes, but is not limited to: a bar shape or an annular shape, that is, the
character container
object may be represented by using a character selection bar object or a
character selection wheel
object.
[0035] FIG. 3 is a first schematic diagram of the GUI in the information
processing
method according to this embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG.
3, the GUI
obtained through rendering on the display of the terminal includes the at
least one virtual
resource object. The virtual resource object includes at least one first
character object a10. A user
of the terminal may perform information exchange by using the GUI, that is,
input a user
command. The first character object a10 can perform a first virtual operation
based on a first user
command detected by the terminal, where the first virtual operation includes,
but is not limited
to: a moving operation, a physical attack operation, a skill attack operation,
and the like. It may
be understood that, the first character object al0 is a character object
controlled by the user of the
terminal. In the game system, the first character object a10 can perform a
corresponding action in
the GUI based on an operation of the user. In an implementation, the GUI
further includes a mini
map 801 of a virtual area in which the user character object is located. A
schematic detailed
drawing of the mini map 801 is shown by 801a. As can be learned, a location of
each character
object (including a friend that belongs to a first group with the first
character object al0 and
enemy that belongs to a second group) in the virtual area is identified in the
mini map 801. The
GUI further includes at least one skill object 803, and the user may control,
by means of a skill
release operation, the user character object to perform a corresponding skill
release operation.
[0036] In the example shown in FIG. 3, the GUI includes a character
selection area 802,
and a character container object is deployed in the character selection area
802. In this example,
the character container object is represented by using a character selection
bar object (that is, the
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character container object presents a display effect of a bar shape). The
character container
object includes at least one window location, and rendering is performed, in a
corresponding
window location, on a character operation object associated with a second
character object that
interacts with the first character object. An example in which the character
operation object is
represented by using an avatar is used, that is, the character selection area
802 includes at least
one avatar. The at least one avatar is respectively in a one-to-one
correspondence with at least
one second character object that interacts with the first character object. As
shown in FIG. 3, a
five-to-five application scenario is used in this example. There are five
second character objects
that belong to a group different from that of the first character object a10,
and correspondingly,
there are five character operation objects in the character selection area
802, for example, a
character operation object b11, a character operation object b12, a character
operation object
b13, a character operation object b14, and a character operation object b15
shown in FIG. 3. It
may be understood that, the five character operation objects in the character
selection area 802
are in a one-to-one correspondence with the five second character objects that
belong to groups
different from that of the first character object.
[0037] Based on the example of the GUI shown in FIG. 3, during control by
the user of
the terminal, a location of the first character object changes in real time,
and correspondingly, a
location of the second character object in the GUI changes in real time.
Therefore, in a process in
which the first character object performs a virtual operation on the second
character object, it is
not easy for the user of the terminal to select a character object on which a
virtual operation is to
be performed. On this basis, in this embodiment, the second character object
that is in the GUI
and whose distance to the first character object meets the first preset
condition is detected.
[0038] Specifically, the detecting a second character object that is in
the GUI and whose
distance to the first character object meets a first preset condition
includes: detecting a second
character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to the first character
object is less than a
first preset threshold.
[0039] FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a principle of detecting the
second character
object whose distance to the first character object meets the first preset
condition in the
information processing method according to this embodiment of the present
invention. As shown
in FIG. 4, a circular area using the first character object 1 as a circle
center and using the first
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preset threshold (R) as a radius is detected, to obtain an area range of the
circular area, where the
area range may be represented by using a coordinate range. That is, an XY
coordinate system is
established in virtual space in which the first character object and the
second character object are
located, and a coordinate range of the circular area in the XY coordinate
system is obtained.
Further, a coordinate of a second character object in the GUI is detected in
real time, it is
determined whether the detected coordinate is within the coordinate range
representing the
circular area, and when it is determined that there is a coordinate within the
coordinate range
representing the circular area (for example, a second character object 2, a
second character object
3, and a second character object 4 shown in FIG. 4 are all in the circular
area), a second character
object that is in the GUI and whose distance to the first character object is
less than the first
preset threshold is detected. The first preset threshold meets an attack
distance or a skill release
distance of the first character object, so that in a subsequent operation
process, it is convenient to
rapidly select the second character object and it is convenient for the first
character object to
perform a virtual operation on the second character object.
[0040] After
the second character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to the first
character object meets the first preset condition is detected, a corresponding
character operation
object in the character container object associated with the second character
object is determined,
and rendering is performed on the character operation object in a
corresponding window location
according to the first display parameter. FIG. 5 is a second schematic diagram
of the GUI in the
information processing method according to this embodiment of the present
invention. As shown
in FIG. 5, rendering is performed, according to the first display parameter,
on the character
operation object associated with the second character object that meets the
first preset condition
(referring to the character operation object b12 shown in FIG. 5, an edge of
an outer circle of the
character operation object b12 has a rendering effect different from that of
another character
operation object, so that the character operation object b12 has a highlighted
display effect).
Compared with another character operation object, the character operation
object (such as the
character operation object b12) on which rendering is performed by using the
first display
parameter has an obvious distinguishing feature, so that the user of terminal
can immediately
identify the character operation object, and the user of the terminal can
rapidly select the
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[0041] In this embodiment, for at least one character operation object that
is in a
character bar selection object in the GUI and on which rendering is performed
according to the
first display parameter, when the user of the terminal performs a trigger
operation on the at least
one character operation object, that is, when the terminal detects a selection
operation gesture on
the at least one character operation object, it indicates that a second
character object associated
with the character operation object is selected, and further, the first
character object performs the
first virtual operation on the second character object. Specifically, in the
game system, the first
virtual operation may be a physical attack operation or may be a skill release
operation. When
the first virtual operation is a physical attack operation, after the
character operation object
associated with the second character object is selected, the first character
object directly performs
the physical attack operation on the second character object. When a skill
release operation is to
performed, a skill object first needs to be selected by means of a skill
selection operation gesture,
and after the character operation object associated with the second character
object is selected,
the first character object performs, the skill release operation on the skill
object, on the second
character object.
[0042] By means of the technical solution in this embodiment of the present
invention,
by means of a window location in a character container object deployed in a
character selection
area in a GUI, rendering is performed, in a corresponding window location, on
a character
operation object associated with a second character object that performs
information exchange
with a first character object, and rendering is performed, according to a
first display parameter,
on a character operation object associated with a second character object
whose distance to the
first character object meets a first preset condition, that is, rendering is
performed, according to
the first display parameter, on a UI avatar associated with the second
character object whose
distance to the first character object meets a first preset condition, so that
the UI avatar has a
display effect that is different from that of another UI avatar, and when a
user selects a target
character operation object, it is convenient for the user to rapidly and
accurately select a target
character object based on the different display effect by means of a selection
operation gesture
on the character operation object, thereby greatly improving operation
experience of the user in
an interaction process.
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[0043] Based on Embodiment 1, this embodiment of the present invention
further
provides an information processing method. FIG. 6 is a schematic flowchart of
the information
processing method according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention. The
information
processing method is applied to a terminal. A software application is executed
on a processor of
the terminal and rendering is performed on a display of the terminal, to
obtain a GUI. The
processor, the GUI, and the software application are implemented in a game
system. As shown in
FIG. 6, the method includes the following steps:
[0044] Step 301: Perform rendering in the GUI, to obtain at least one
virtual resource
object, at least one of the virtual resource object being configured as a
first character object that
performs a first virtual operation according to an input first user command.
[0045] Step 302: Deploy in such a manner that at least one character
container object in
at least one character selection area in the GUI includes at least one window
location.
[0046] In this embodiment, the GUI includes the at least one character
selection area, the
character selection area includes the at least one character container object,
and the character
container object includes the at least one window location. Corresponding
character operation
objects are carried in at least some window locations. The character operation
object may be
represented by using an identifier (the identifier may be an avatar) of a
character object
associated with the character operation object in the GUI. Herein, the second
character object
associated with the character operation object and the first character object
belong to different
groups. A manner of rendering on the character container object in the
character selection area
includes, but is not limited to: a bar shape or an annular shape, that is, the
character container
object may be represented by using a character selection bar object or a
character selection wheel
object.
[0047] Specifically, referring to FIG. 3, the GUI obtained through
rendering on the
display of the terminal includes the at least one virtual resource object. The
virtual resource
object includes at least one first character object a10. A user of the
terminal may perform
information exchange by using the GUI, that is, input a user command. The
first character object
a10 can perform a first virtual operation based on a first user command
detected by the terminal,
where the first virtual operation includes, but is not limited to: a moving
operation, a physical
attack operation, a skill attack operation, and the like. It may be understood
that, the first
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character object al0 is a character object controlled by the user of the
terminal. In the game
system, the first character object a10 can perform a corresponding action in
the GUI based on an
operation of the user. In an implementation, the GUI further includes a mini
map 801 of a virtual
area in which the user character object is located. A schematic detailed
method drawing of the
mini map 801 is shown by 801a. As can be learned, a location of each character
object (including
a friend that belongs to a first group with the first character object a10 and
enemy that belongs to
a second group) in the virtual area is identified in the mini map 801. The GUI
further includes at
least one skill object 803, and the user may control, by means of a skill
release operation, the
user character object to perform a corresponding skill release operation.
[0048] In the example shown in FIG. 3, the GUI includes a character
selection area 802,
and a character container object is deployed in the character selection area
802. In this example,
the character container object is represented by using a character selection
bar object (that is, the
character container object presents a display effect of a bar shape). The
character container
object includes at least one window location, and rendering is performed, in a
corresponding
window location, on a character operation object associated with a second
character object that
interacts with the first character object. An example in which the character
operation object is
represented by using an avatar is used, that is, the character selection area
802 includes at least
one avatar. The at least one avatar is respectively in a one-to-one
correspondence with at least
one second character object that interacts with the first character object. As
shown in FIG. 3, a
five-to-five application scenario is used in this example. There are five
second character objects
that belong to a group different from that of the first character object a10,
and correspondingly,
there are five character operation objects in the character selection area
802, for example, a
character operation object b11, a character operation object b12, a character
operation object
b13, a character operation object b14, and a character operation object b15
shown in FIG. 3. It
may be understood that, the five character operation objects in the character
selection area 802
are in a one-to-one correspondence with the five second character objects that
belong to groups
different from that of the first character object.
[0049] Based on the example of the GUI shown in FIG. 3, during control by
the user of
the terminal, a location of the first character object changes in real time,
and correspondingly, a
location of the second character object in the GUI changes in real time. On
this basis, in a
process in which the first character object performs a virtual operation on
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object, it is not easy for the user of the terminal to select a character
object on which a virtual
operation is to be performed. On this basis, in this embodiment, the second
character object that
is in the GUI and whose distance to the first character object meets the first
preset condition is
detected.
[0050] Step 303: Detect a second character object that is in the GUI and
whose distance
to the first character object meets a first preset condition, and perform,
according to a first
display parameter, rendering on a detected character operation object
associated with the second
character object in the at least one window location.
[0051] Herein, the detecting a second character object that is in the GUI
and whose
distance to the first character object meets a first preset condition
includes: detecting a second
character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to the first character
object is less than a
first preset threshold. Referring to FIG. 4, a circular area using the first
character object 1 as a
circle center and using the first preset threshold (R) as a radius is
detected, to obtain an area
range of the circular area, where the area range may be represented by using a
coordinate range.
That is, an XY coordinate system is established in virtual space in which the
first character
object and the second character object are located, and a coordinate range of
the circular area in
the XY coordinate system is obtained. Further, a coordinate of a second
character object in the
GUI is detected in real time, it is determined whether the detected coordinate
is within the
coordinate range representing the circular area, and when it is determined
that there is a
coordinate within the coordinate range representing the circular area (for
example, a second
character object 2, a second character object 3, and a second character object
4 shown in FIG. 4
are all in the circular area), a second character object that is in the GUI
and whose distance to the
first character object is less than the first preset threshold is detected.
The first preset threshold
meets an attack distance or a skill release distance of the first character
object, so that in a
subsequent operation process, it is convenient to rapidly select the second
character object and it
is convenient for the first character object to perform a virtual operation on
the second character
object.
[0052] Step 304: Detect, in second character objects whose distances to the
first character
object meet the first preset condition, at least some second character objects
whose distances to
the first character object meet a second preset condition, and perform,
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display parameter, rendering on character operation objects associated with
the detected at least
some second character objects in the at least one window location.
[0053] Herein, the detecting, in second character objects whose distances
to the first
character object meet the first preset condition, at least some second
character objects whose
distances to the first character object meet a second preset condition
includes:
detecting, in the second character objects whose distances to the first
character
object meet the first preset condition, a second character object whose
distance to the first
character object reaches a second preset threshold, where the second preset
threshold is greater
than or equal to the first preset threshold.
[0054] FIG. 7 is a schematic diagram of a principle of detecting the second
character
object whose distance to the first character object meets the second preset
condition in the
information processing method according to this embodiment of the present
invention. Referring
to FIG. 4 and FIG. 7, for the second character objects whose distances to the
first character
object meet the first preset condition (for example, the second character
object 2, the second
character object 3, and the second character object 4 shown in FIG. 4 all meet
the first preset
condition), that is, second character objects whose previous coordinate values
are in the circular
area using the first preset threshold (R) as a radius, because a location of
the second character
object in the GUI changes in real time, on this basis, before step 305, that
is, before a selection
operation gesture on at least one character operation object on which
rendering is performed
according to the first display parameter and that is in the character
container object is detected,
the coordinate value of the second character object whose previous coordinate
value is in the
circular area using the first preset threshold (R) as a radius is detected in
real time, and it is
determined whether the coordinate value is in a circular area using the second
preset threshold (r
shown in FIG. 7) as a radius and using the first character object as a circle
center. In the example
shown in FIG. 7, the second preset threshold (r) is greater than the first
preset threshold (R), that
is, in the second character objects whose previous coordinate values are in
the circular area using
the first preset threshold as a radius, as the first character object and the
second character objects
move in real time, at least some second character objects move to make
distances between at
least some second character objects and the first character object be greater
than the first preset
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4 shown in FIG. 7. Further, an operation state in which character operation
objects associated
with the at least some second character objects can be selected is
deactivated, and rendering is
performed on the character operation object in the corresponding window
location according to
the second display parameter. In an implementation, the second display
parameter may be a
conventional display parameter, that is, in the GUI, rendering is performed,
according to the
second display parameter, on all other virtual resource objects than the
character operation object
that is displayed according to the first display parameter.
[0055] Step 305: The first character object performs at least one of the
first virtual
operation on a corresponding second character object when detecting a
selection operation
gesture on at least one character operation object on which rendering is
performed according to
the first display parameter and that is in the character container object.
[0056] Herein, after the second character object that is in the GUI and
whose distance to
the first character object meets the first preset condition is detected, a
corresponding character
operation object in the character container object associated with the second
character object is
determined, and rendering is performed on the character operation object in a
corresponding
window location according to the first display parameter. Referring to FIG. 5,
rendering is
performed, according to the first display parameter, on the character
operation object associated
with the second character object that meets the first preset condition
(referring to the character
operation object b12 shown in FIG. 5, an edge of an outer circle of the
character operation object
b12 has a rendering effect different from that of another character operation
object, so that the
character operation object b12 has a highlighted display effect). Compared
with another
character operation object, the character operation object (such as the
character operation object
b12) on which rendering is performed by using the first display parameter has
an obvious
distinguishing feature, so that the user of terminal can immediately identify
the character
operation object, and the user of the terminal can rapidly select the
character operation object
having an obvious distinguishing feature in a subsequent operation.
[0057] In this embodiment, for at least one character operation object
that is in a
character bar selection object in the GUI and on which rendering is performed
according to the
first display parameter, when the user of the terminal performs a trigger
operation on the at least
one character operation object, that is, when the terminal detects a selection
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the at least one character operation object, it indicates that a second
character object associated
with the character operation object is selected, and further, the first
character object performs the
first virtual operation on the second character object. Specifically, in the
game system, the first
virtual operation may be a physical attack operation or may be a skill release
operation. When
the first virtual operation is a physical attack operation, after the
character operation object
associated with the second character object is selected, the first character
object directly performs
the physical attack operation on the second character object. When a skill
release operation is to
performed, a skill object first needs to be selected by means of a skill
selection operation gesture,
and after the character operation object associated with the second character
object is selected,
the first character object performs, the skill release operation on the skill
object, on the second
character object.
[0058] By means of the technical solution in this embodiment of the present
invention,
by means of a window location in a character container object deployed in a
character selection
area in a GUI, rendering is performed, in a corresponding window location, on
a character
operation object associated with a second character object that performs
information exchange
with a first character object, and rendering is performed, according to a
first display parameter,
on a character operation object associated with a second character object
whose distance to the
first character object meets a first preset condition, that is, rendering is
performed, according to
the first display parameter, on a UI avatar associated with the second
character object whose
distance to the first character object meets a first preset condition, so that
the UI avatar has a
display effect that is different from that of another UI avatar, and when a
user selects a target
character operation object, it is convenient for the user to rapidly and
accurately select a target
character object based on the different display effect by means of a selection
operation gesture
on the character operation object, thereby greatly improving operation
experience of the user in
an interaction process.
Embodiment 3
[0059] Based on Embodiment 1 and Embodiment 2, this embodiment of the
present
invention further provides an information processing method. FIG. 8 is a
schematic flowchart of
the information processing method according to Embodiment 3 of the present
invention. The
information processing method is applied to a terminal. A software application
is executed on a
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processor of the terminal and rendering is performed on a display of the
terminal, to obtain a
GUI. The processor, the GUI, and the software application are implemented in a
game system.
As shown in FIG. 8, the method includes the following steps:
[0060] Step 401: Perform rendering in the GUI, to obtain at least one
virtual resource
object, at least one of the virtual resource object being configured as a
first character object that
performs a first virtual operation according to an input first user command.
[0061] Step 402: Deploy in such a manner that at least one character
container object in
at least one character selection area in the GUI includes at least one window
location.
[0062] In this embodiment, the GUI includes the at least one character
selection area, the
character selection area includes the at least one character container object,
and the character
container object includes the at least one window location. Corresponding
character operation
objects are carried in at least some window locations. The character operation
object may be
represented by using an identifier (the identifier may be an avatar) of a
character object
associated with the character operation object in the GUI. Herein, the second
character object
associated with the character operation object and the first character object
belong to different
groups. A manner of rendering on the character container object in the
character selection area
includes, but is not limited to: a bar shape or an annular shape, that is, the
character container
object may be represented by using a character selection bar object or a
character selection wheel
object.
[0063] Specifically, referring to FIG. 3, the GUI obtained through
rendering on the
display of the terminal includes the at least one virtual resource object. The
virtual resource
object includes at least one first character object a10. A user of the
terminal may perform
information exchange by using the GUI, that is, input a user command. The
first character object
a10 can perform a first virtual operation based on a first user command
detected by the terminal,
where the first virtual operation includes, but is not limited to: a moving
operation, a physical
attack operation, a skill attack operation, and the like. It may be understood
that, the first
character object a10 is a character object controlled by the user of the
terminal. In the game
system, the first character object a10 can perform a corresponding action in
the GUI based on an
operation of the user. In an implementation, the GUI further includes a mini
map 801 of a virtual
area in which the user character object is located. A schematic detailed
method drawing of the
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mini map 801 is shown by 801a. As can be learned, a location of each character
object (including
a friend that belongs to a first group with the first character object a10 and
enemy that belongs to
a second group) in the virtual area is identified in the mini map 801. The GUI
further includes at
least one skill object 803, and the user may control, by means of a skill
release operation, the
user character object to perform a corresponding skill release operation.
[0064] In the example shown in FIG. 3, the GUI includes a character
selection area 802,
and a character container object is deployed in the character selection area
802. In this example,
the character container object is represented by using a character selection
bar object (that is, the
character container object presents a display effect of a bar shape). The
character container
object includes at least one window location, and rendering is performed, in a
corresponding
window location, on a character operation object associated with a second
character object that
interacts with the first character object. An example in which the character
operation object is
represented by using an avatar is used, that is, the character selection area
802 includes at least
one avatar. The at least one avatar is respectively in a one-to-one
correspondence with at least
one second character object that interacts with the first character object. As
shown in FIG. 3, a
five-to-five application scenario is used in this example. There are five
second character objects
that belong to a group different from that of the first character object al0,
and correspondingly,
there are five character operation objects in the character selection area
802, for example, a
character operation object b11, a character operation object b12, a character
operation object
b13, a character operation object b14, and a character operation object b15
shown in FIG. 3. It
may be understood that, the five character operation objects in the character
selection area 802
are in a one-to-one correspondence with the second character objects that
belong to groups
different from that of the first character object.
[0065] Based on the example of the GUI shown in FIG. 3, during control by
the user of
the terminal, a location of the first character object changes in real time,
and correspondingly, a
location of the second character object in the GUI changes in real time. On
this basis, in a
process in which the first character object performs a virtual operation on
the second character
object, it is not easy for the user of the terminal to select a character
object on which a virtual
operation is to be performed. On this basis, in this embodiment, the second
character object that
is in the GUI and whose distance to the first character object meets the first
preset condition is
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[0066] Step 403: Detect a second character object that is in the GUI and
whose distance
to the first character object meets a first preset condition, and perform,
according to a first
display parameter, rendering on a detected character operation object
associated with the second
character object in the at least one window location.
[0067] Herein, the detecting a second character object that is in the GUI
and whose
distance to the first character object meets a first preset condition
includes: detecting a second
character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to the first character
object is less than a
first preset threshold. Referring to FIG. 4, a circular area using the first
character object 1 as a
circle center and using the first preset threshold (R) as a radius is
detected, to obtain an area
range of the circular area, where the area range may be represented by using a
coordinate range.
That is, an XY coordinate system is established in virtual space in which the
first character
object and the second character object are located, and a coordinate range of
the circular area in
the XY coordinate system is obtained. Further, a coordinate of a second
character object in the
GUI is detected in real time, it is determined whether the detected coordinate
is within the
coordinate range representing the circular area, and when it is determined
that there is a
coordinate within the coordinate range representing the circular area (for
example, a second
character object 2, a second character object 3, and a second character object
4 shown in FIG. 4
are all in the circular area), a second character object that is in the GUI
and whose distance to the
first character object is less than the first preset threshold is detected.
The first preset threshold
meets an attack distance or a skill release distance of the first character
object, so that in a
subsequent operation process, it is convenient to rapidly select the second
character object and it
is convenient for the first character object to perform a virtual operation on
the second character
object.
[0068] Step 404: The first character object performs at least one of the
first virtual
operation on a corresponding second character object when a selection
operation gesture on at
least one character operation object on which rendering is performed according
to the first
display parameter and that is in the character container object is detected.
[0069] Herein, after the second character object that is in the GUI and
whose distance to
the first character object meets the first preset condition is detected, a
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determined, and rendering is performed on the character operation object in a
corresponding
window location according to the first display parameter. Referring to FIG. 5,
rendering is
performed, according to the first display parameter, on the character
operation object associated
with the second character object that meets the first preset condition
(referring to the character
operation object b12 shown in FIG. 5, an edge of an outer circle of the
character operation object
b12 has a rendering effect different from that of another character operation
object, so that the
character operation object b12 has a highlighted display effect). Compared
with another
character operation object, the character operation object (such as the
character operation object
b12) on which rendering is performed by using the first display parameter has
an obvious
distinguishing feature, so that the user of terminal can immediately identify
the character
operation object, and the user of the terminal can rapidly select the
character operation object
having an obvious distinguishing feature in a subsequent operation.
[0070] In this embodiment, for at least one character operation object
that is in a
character bar selection object in the GUI and on which rendering is performed
according to the
first display parameter, when the user of the terminal performs a trigger
operation on the at least
one character operation object, that is, when the terminal detects a selection
operation gesture on
the at least one character operation object, it indicates that a second
character object associated
with the character operation object is selected, and further, the first
character object performs the
first virtual operation on the second character object. Specifically, in the
game system, the first
virtual operation may be a physical attack operation or may be a skill release
operation. When
the first virtual operation is a physical attack operation, after the
character operation object
associated with the second character object is selected, the first character
object directly performs
the physical attack operation on the second character object. When a skill
release operation is to
performed, a skill object first needs to be selected by means of a skill
selection operation gesture,
and after the character operation object associated with the second character
object is selected,
the first character object performs, the skill release operation on the skill
object, on the second
character object.
[0071] Step 405: Obtain status attribute information of a second character
object in the
GUI, and synchronize the status attribute information to a server, and obtain,
from the server,
status attribute information of a character object associated with a character
operation object in
the character container object.
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[0072] Herein, the terminal obtains the status attribute information of the
second
character object in the GUI. Because the virtual space in which the first
character object and the
second character object are located may be relatively large based on a setting
of the software
application, the vision image in the GUI obtained through rendering by the
terminal includes the
first character object, and may include the second character object; and
certainly, may not
include the second character object. In this embodiment, the terminal obtains
the status attribute
information of the second character object included in the GUI, and
synchronizes the
corresponding second character object associated with the status attribute
information to the
server. The status attribute information includes, but is not limited to: a
blood value, a hit point,
or the skill attribute information of the second character object.
[0073] In this embodiment, the terminal obtains, from the server according
to a preset
rule, the status attribute information of the character object associated with
the character
operation object in the character container object, so that when the GUI of
the terminal does not
include at least some second character objects and status attribute
information of the at least
some second character objects cannot be obtained, status attribute information
of second
character objects associated with all character operation objects included in
the character
container object may be obtained by using a second character object and
associated status
attribute information that are synchronized by another terminal to the server.
The terminal and
the another terminal belong to a same group, and it may be understood that,
the first character
object controlled by the terminal and a first character object controlled by
the another terminal
belong to a same group in the game system, and a virtual operation is
performed on second
character objects that belong to another group. When the GUI of the terminal
does not include all
second character objects, a GUI of the another terminal may include at least
some second
character objects, so that based on obtained status attribute information of a
second character
object included in a GUI of at least one terminal that belongs to the same
group, status attribute
information of the second character objects is mutually synchronized.
[0074] Step 406: Perform, according to the obtained status attribute
information in a
preset manner, rendering on the character operation object associated with the
second character
object in a corresponding window location.
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[0075] Herein, after the status attribute information of the second
character object is
obtained by the terminal and synchronized by the server, rendering is
performed, in a preset
manner in the character container object, on the character operation object
associated with the
second character object in the corresponding window location. Specifically,
FIG. 9 is a third
schematic diagram of the GUI in the information processing method according to
this
embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 9, an example in which
the status
attribute information is a blood value is used. An area at an outer circle of
a character operation
object (referring to the character operation object b22 in FIG. 9) associated
with the second
character object is used as a blood groove display area b221, and a current
blood value of a
corresponding second character object is represented by using a proportion of
a blood value in
the blood groove display area b221 to the blood groove display area.
Certainly, in this
embodiment of the present invention, a manner of performing rendering on the
status attribute
information in a window location corresponding to the character operation
object associated with
the second character object is not limited to what is shown in FIG. 9.
[0076] Second character objects included in the GUIs of the terminal and
the another
terminal may not include all second character objects that interact with the
second character
objects and that belong to another group. Using a five-to-five application
scenario as an example,
group members that belong to a first group include: a group member 1, a group
member 2, a
group member 3, a group member 4, and a group member 5, and group members that
belong to a
second group include: a group member 6, a group member 7, a group member 8, a
group
member 9, and a group member 10. Assuming that the terminal controls the group
member 1, the
vision image in the GUI of the terminal includes only the group member 6, a
vision image in a
GUI of another terminal of the group member that belongs to the first group
includes the group
member 7, the group member 8, and the group member 9, and the group member 10
does not
exist in a vision image in a GUI of any terminal controlled by the group
member that belongs to
the first group. On this basis, as shown in FIG. 9, the character operation
object b21 presents a
display effect that is different from that of another operation object, which
is specifically
displayed with a gray effect, and it indicates that a second character object
corresponding to the
character operation object b21 does not exist in a vision image of the first
character object a10,
and does not exist in a vision image of another character object that belongs
to a same group as
the first character object al0. Correspondingly, status attribute information
of a second character
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object associated with the character operation object b21 is not displayed in
an area at an outer
circle of the character operation object b21.
[0077] By means of the technical solution in this embodiment of the present
invention,
on one hand, by means of a window location in a character container object
deployed in a
character selection area in a GUI, rendering is performed, in a corresponding
window location,
on a character operation object associated with a second character object that
performs
information exchange with a first character object, and rendering is
performed, according to a
first display parameter, on a character operation object associated with a
second character object
whose distance to the first character object meets a first preset condition,
that is, rendering is
performed, according to the first display parameter, on a UI avatar associated
with the second
character object whose distance to the first character object meets a first
preset condition, so that
the UI avatar has a display effect that is different from that of another UI
avatar, and when a user
selects a target character operation object, it is convenient for the user to
rapidly and accurately
select a target character object based on the different display effect by
means of a selection
operation gesture on the character operation object, thereby greatly improving
operation
experience of the user in an interaction process. On the other hand, status
attribute information of
the second character object associated with the character operation object in
the character
container object is obtained by synchronizing status attribute information of
the character object
(that is, a teammate) that is in a vision image and that belongs to the same
group, and rendering
is performed on the status attribute information in a corresponding window
location in a
particular manner, that is, the status attribute information of the second
character object (that is,
enemy) is reflected on a corresponding character operation object (a UI
avatar), so that the user
can rapidly learn the status attribute information of the second character
object (that is, the
enemy), thereby improving operation experience of the user in an information
exchange process.
[0078] Based on the method embodiments in Embodiment 1 to Embodiment 3, a
one-to-
one application scenario is used as an example for detailed description below.
The one-to-one
application scenario is an application scenario in which a first character
object controlled by a
terminal 1 performs information exchange with a second character object
controlled by a
terminal 2. For other application scenarios, refer to descriptions in this
application scenario, and
details are not described in this embodiment again. FIG. 10 is a schematic
application diagram of
interaction in the information processing method according to this embodiment
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invention. As shown in FIG. 10, in this application scenario, the terminal 1,
the terminal 2, and a
server are included. A user 1 performs triggering and control by using the
terminal 1, and a user
2 performs triggering and control by using the terminal 2; and the method
includes the following
steps:
[0079] For the user 1, Step 11: The user 1 triggers a game system and
registers identity
authentication information, where the identity authentication information may
be a user name
and a password.
[0080] Step 12: The terminal 1 transmits the obtained identity
authentication information
to the server 3, and the server 3 performs identity authentication, and
returns a first GUI to the
terminal 1 after the identity authentication succeeds, where the first GUI
includes a first
character object, the first character object can perform a virtual operation
based on a trigger
operation of the user 1, and the virtual operation includes a moving operation
of the first
character object, an attack operation or a skill release operation of the
first character object for
another character object, and the like.
[0081] For the user 2, Step 21: The user 2 triggers the game system and
registers identity
authentication information, where the identity authentication information may
be a user name
and a password.
[0082] Step 22: The terminal 2 transmits the obtained identity
authentication information
to the server 3, and the server 3 performs identity authentication, and
returns a second GUI to the
terminal 2 after the identity authentication succeeds, where the second GUI
includes a second
character object, the second character object can perform a virtual operation
based on a trigger
operation of the user 2, and the virtual operation includes a moving operation
of the second
character object, an attack operation or a skill release operation of the
second character object for
another character object, and the like.
[0083] In this embodiment, the user 1 and the user 2 make, based on the
trigger
operation, the first character object and the second character object be
information exchange
objects, that is, the first character object uses the second character object
as a target interaction
object, and correspondingly, the second character object uses the first
character object as a target
interaction object. It may be understood that, when the user 1 and the user 2
serve as controlling
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the second character object in a window location of a character container
object in a character
selection area in the first GUI; and correspondingly, rendering is performed
on a character
operation object associated with the first character object in a window
location of a character
container object in a character selection area in the second GUI. Further, the
terminal 1 detects a
distance between the second character object and the first character object in
real time, and when
the distance is within a range of a first preset threshold, performs
rendering, according to a first
display parameter, on the character operation object associated with the
second character object
in the window location, that is, highlights the character operation object.
Correspondingly, the
terminal 2 detects the distance between the first character object and the
second character object
in real time, and when the distance is within the range of the first preset
threshold, performs
rendering, according to the first display parameter, the character operation
object associated with
the first character object in the window location, that is, highlights the
character operation object.
[0084] Till now, login operations and initialization operations of the user
1 and the user 2
in the game system are completed.
[0085] For the user 1, Step 13: The user performs a trigger operation on
the first GUI
presented by the terminal 1, where the trigger operation may be performed on
any virtual
resource object in the first GUI, including a skill release operation on any
skill object, an
information exchange operation (which may be understood as a physical attack
operation) on any
character object, a moving operation of the first character object, and the
like. In this
embodiment, the trigger operation is selection gesture operation on a
character operation object
that is in the character container object in the first GUI and on which
rendering is performed
according to the first display parameter.
[0086] Step 14: The terminal 1 identifies, when obtaining a trigger
operation, an
instruction corresponding to the trigger operation gesture; executes the
instruction, for example,
executes a skill release instruction for a corresponding operation object,
executes an information
exchange instruction (such as a physical attack instruction) for a
corresponding character object,
or executes a moving instruction; and in a process of executing the
instruction, records a change
of corresponding data. In this embodiment, when obtaining the selection
gesture operation on the
character operation object on which rendering is performed according to the
first display
parameter, the terminal 1 generates a corresponding first instruction, and
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instruction to control the first character object to perform a virtual
operation (such as a physical
attack operation or a skill release operation) on the corresponding second
character object.
[0087] Step 15: Use changed data as first data corresponding to the
terminal 1 and
synchronize the first data to the server 3.
[0088] For the user 2, Step 23: The user performs a trigger operation on
the second GUI
presented by the terminal 2, where the trigger operation may be performed on
any virtual
resource object in the second GUI, including a skill release operation on any
skill object, an
information exchange operation (which may be understood as a physical attack
operation) on any
character object, a moving operation of the second character object, and the
like. In this
embodiment, the trigger operation is a selection gesture operation on a
character operation object
that is in the character container object in the second GUI and on which
rendering is performed
according to the first display parameter.
[0089] Step 24: The terminal 2 identifies, when obtaining a trigger
operation, an
instruction corresponding to the trigger operation gesture; executes the
instruction, for example,
executes a skill release instruction for a corresponding operation object,
executes an information
exchange instruction (such as a physical attack instruction) for a
corresponding character object,
or executes a moving instruction; and in a process of executing the
instruction, records a change
of corresponding data. In this embodiment, when obtaining the selection
gesture operation on the
character operation object on which rendering is performed according to the
first display
parameter, the terminal 2 generates a corresponding second instruction, and
executes the second
instruction to control the second character object to perform a virtual
operation (such as a
physical attack operation or a skill release operation) on the corresponding
first character object.
[0090] Step 25: Use changed data as second data corresponding to the
terminal 2 and
synchronize the second data to the server 3.
[0091] For the server 3, Step 30: Update data based on the first data
synchronized by the
terminal 1 and the second data synchronized by the terminal 2, and synchronize
updated data
respectively to the terminal 1 and the terminal 2.
[0092] Referring to the descriptions of the foregoing method embodiment, an
actual
application scenario is used as an example to describe this embodiment of the
present invention
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as follows: This application scenario is related to Multiplayer Online Battle
Arena Games
(MOBA). In MOBA, related terms are as follows: 1) UI layer, that is, an icon
in a GUI; 2) skill
indicator: a special effect, a halo, or an operation used to supplement skill
release; 3) virtual lens,
which may be understood as a camera in the game; and 4) mini map: a scaled-
down version of a
large map, which may be understood as a radar map, where information and
locations of two
parties are displayed in the map.
[00931 FIG. 11 is a fourth schematic diagram of the GUI in the information
processing
method according to this embodiment of the present invention. This example is
based on an
application scenario used in an actual interaction process. Referring to FIG.
11, in this
embodiment, a first character object 93 and at least one skill object 92 are
obtained through
rendering; and the first character object 93 can perform a corresponding
virtual operation based
on a trigger operation of a user. The GUI 90 further includes a character
selection area 91, and
the character selection area 91 includes a character container object. In this
example, the
character container object includes five window locations. One character
operation object is
obtained through rendering in each window location, including a character
operation object 911,
a character operation object 912, a character operation object 913, a
character operation object
914, and a character operation object 915. Each character operation object is
associated with one
character object. The five character objects are all character objects that
belong to a group that is
different from the first character object 93, that is, the five character
objects serve as enemy of
the first character object 93 for interaction. In this application scenario,
the first character object
93 detects, in real time, a second character object that is in the GUI 90 and
whose distance to the
first character object 93 meets the first preset threshold, and performs,
according to the first
display parameter, rendering on a character operation object associated with a
corresponding
second character object, where the first preset threshold may be set to a
skill release distance of a
skill object according to an actual requirement, and certainly is not limited
to the foregoing
setting manner. For example, compared with another character operation object,
the character
operation object 913 shown in FIG. 10 has a highlighted display effect. On
this basis, the user
can rapidly and accurately select a target character object based on the
different display effect by
means of a selection operation gesture on the character operation object, to
perform a virtual
operation on the target character object, thereby greatly improving operation
experience of the
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Embodiment 4
[0094] This embodiment of the present invention further provides a
terminal. FIG. 12 is a
schematic structural diagram of the terminal according to Embodiment 4 of the
present
invention. As shown in FIG. 12, the terminal includes: a rendering processing
unit 61, a
deployment unit 62, a detection unit 63, and an operation execution unit 64.
[0095] The rendering processing unit 61 is configured to: execute a
software application
and perform rendering, to obtain a GUI; and perform rendering in the GUI, to
obtain at least one
virtual resource object, at least one of the virtual resource object being
configured as a first
character object that performs a first virtual operation according to an input
first user command;
and being further configured to perform, according to a first display
parameter, rendering on a
character operation object detected by the detection unit 63 and associated
with the second
character object in the at least one window location.
[0096] The deployment unit 62 is configured to: deploy in such a manner
that at least one
character container object in at least one character selection area in the GUI
includes at least one
window location.
[0097] The detection unit 63 is configured to detect a second character
object that is in
the GUI and whose distance to the first character object meets a first preset
condition.
[0098] The operation execution unit 64 is configured to: perform, by the
first character
object, at least one of the first virtual operation on a corresponding second
character object when
a selection operation gesture on at least one character operation object on
which rendering is
performed according to the first display parameter and that is in the
character container object is
detected.
[0099] In this embodiment, the GUI includes the at least one character
selection area, the
character selection area includes the at least one character container object,
and the character
container object includes the at least one window location. Corresponding
character operation
objects are carried in at least some window locations. The character operation
object may be
represented by using an identifier (the identifier may be an avatar) of a
character object
associated with the character operation object in the GUI. Herein, the second
character object
associated with the character operation object and the first character object
belong to different
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groups. A manner of rendering on the character container object in the
character selection area
includes, but is not limited to: a bar shape or an annular shape, that is, the
character container
object may be represented by using a character selection bar object or a
character selection wheel
object.
[0100] Specifically, referring to FIG. 3, the GUI obtained through
rendering by the
rendering processing unit 61 includes the at least one virtual resource
object. The virtual resource
object includes at least one first character object a10. A user of the
terminal may perform
information exchange by using the GUI, that is, input a user command. The
first character object
a10 can perform a first virtual operation based on a first user command
detected by the terminal,
where the first virtual operation includes, but is not limited to: a moving
operation, a physical
attack operation, a skill attack operation, and the like. It may be understood
that, the first
character object a10 is a character object controlled by the user of the
terminal. In the game
system, the first character object a10 can perform a corresponding action in
the GUI based on an
operation of the user. In an implementation, the GUI further includes a mini
map 801 of a virtual
area in which the user character object is located. A schematic detailed
method drawing of the
mini map 801 is shown by 801a. As can be learned, a location of each character
object (including
a friend that belongs to a first group with the first character object a10 and
enemy that belongs to
a second group) in the virtual area is identified in the mini map 801. The GUI
further includes at
least one skill object 803, and the user may control, by means of a skill
release operation, the
user character object to perform a corresponding skill release operation.
[0101] In the example shown in FIG. 3, the deployment unit 62 deploys a
character
selection area 802 in the GUI, and deploys a character container object in the
character selection
area 802. In this example, the character container object is represented by
using a character
selection bar object (that is, the character container object presents a
display effect of a bar
shape). The character container object includes at least one window location,
and rendering is
performed, in a corresponding window location, on a character operation object
associated with a
second character object that interacts with the first character object. An
example in which the
character operation object is represented by using an avatar is used, that is,
the character
selection area 802 includes at least one avatar. The at least one avatar is
respectively in a one-to-
one correspondence with at least one second character object that interacts
with the first
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There are five second character objects that belong to a group different from
that of the first
character object a10, and correspondingly, there are five character operation
objects in the
character selection area 802, for example, a character operation object b11, a
character operation
object b12, a character operation object b13, a character operation object
b14, and a character
operation object b15 shown in FIG. 3. It may be understood that, the five
character operation
objects in the character selection area 802 are in a one-to-one correspondence
with the second
character objects that belong to groups different from that of the first
character object.
[0102] Based on the example of the GUI shown in FIG. 3, during control by
the user of
the terminal, a location of the first character object changes in real time,
and correspondingly, a
location of the second character object in the GUI changes in real time. On
this basis, in a
process in which the first character object performs a virtual operation on
the second character
object, it is not easy for the user of the terminal to select a character
object on which a virtual
operation is to be performed. On this basis, in this embodiment, the detection
unit 63 detects the
second character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to the first
character object meets
the first preset condition.
[0103] Specifically, the detection unit 63 is configured to detect a second
character object
that is in the GUI and whose distance to the first character object is less
than a first preset
threshold.
[0104] Referring to FIG. 4, the detection unit 63 detects a circular area
using the first
character object 1 as a circle center and using the first preset threshold (R)
as a radius, to obtain
an area range of the circular area, where the area range may be represented by
using a coordinate
range. That is, an XY coordinate system is established in virtual space in
which the first
character object and the second character object are located, and a coordinate
range of the
circular area in the XY coordinate system is obtained. Further, the detection
unit 63 detects a
coordinate of a second character object in the GUI in real time, determines
whether the detected
coordinate is within the coordinate range representing the circular area, and
when determining
that there is a coordinate within the coordinate range representing the
circular area (for example,
a second character object 2, a second character object 3, and a second
character object 4 shown
in FIG. 4 are all in the circular area), detects a second character object
that is in the GUI and
whose distance to the first character object is less than the first preset
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threshold meets an attack distance or a skill release distance of the first
character object, so that
in a subsequent operation process, it is convenient to rapidly select the
second character object
and it is convenient for the first character object to perform a virtual
operation on the second
character object.
[0105] In an implementation, the detection unit 63 is further configured to
detect, in
second character objects whose distances to the first character object meet
the first preset
condition, at least some second character objects whose distances to the first
character object
meet a second preset condition; and
correspondingly, the rendering processing unit 61 is configured to: perform,
according to a second display parameter, rendering on character operation
objects associated
with the at least some second character objects detected by the detection unit
63 in the at least
one window location, where a display effect obtained by performing rendering
according to the
second display parameter is different from a display effect obtained by
performing rendering
according to the first display parameter.
[0106] Specifically, the detection unit 63 is configured to detect, in the
second character
objects whose distances to the first character object meet the first preset
condition, a second
character object whose distance to the first character object reaches a second
preset threshold,
where the second preset threshold is greater than or equal to the first preset
threshold.
[0107] Herein, referring to FIG. 7, for the second character objects whose
distances to the
first character object meet the first preset condition (for example, the
second character object 2,
the second character object 3, and the second character object 4 shown in FIG.
4 all meet the first
preset condition), that is, second character objects whose previous coordinate
values are in the
circular area using the first preset threshold (R) as a radius, because a
location of the second
character object in the GUI changes in real time, on this basis, before the
detection unit 63
detects a selection operation gesture on at least one character operation
object on which
rendering is performed according to the first display parameter and that is in
the character
container object, the detection unit 63 detects, in real time, the coordinate
value of the second
character object whose previous coordinate value is in the circular area using
the first preset
threshold (R) as a radius, and determines whether the coordinate value is in a
circular area using
the second preset threshold (r shown in FIG. 7) as a radius and using the
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a circle center. In the example shown in FIG. 7, the second preset threshold
(r) is greater than the
first preset threshold (R), that is, in the second character objects whose
previous coordinate
values are in the circular area using the first preset threshold as a radius,
as the first character
object and the second character objects move in real time, at least some
second character objects
move to make distances between at least some second character objects and the
first character
object be greater than the first preset threshold (R) and reach the second
preset threshold (r), for
example, the second character object 4 shown in FIG. 7. Further, an operation
state in which
character operation objects associated with the at least some second character
objects can be
selected is deactivated, and rendering is performed on the character operation
object in the
corresponding window location according to the second display parameter. In an

implementation, the second display parameter may be a conventional display
parameter, that is,
in the GUI, rendering is performed, according to the second display parameter,
on all other
virtual resource objects than the character operation object that is displayed
according to the first
display parameter.
[0108] In an implementation, the rendering processing unit 61 performs
rendering, in a
corresponding window location according to the first display parameter, on the
character
operation object associated with the second character object that meets the
first preset condition.
Referring to FIG. 5, rendering is performed, according to the first display
parameter, on the
character operation object associated with the second character object that
meets the first preset
condition (referring to the character operation object b12 shown in FIG. 5, an
edge of an outer
circle of the character operation object b12 has a rendering effect different
from that of another
character operation object, so that the character operation object b12 has a
highlighted display
effect). Compared with another character operation object, the character
operation object (such
as the character operation object b12) on which rendering is performed by
using the first display
parameter has an obvious distinguishing feature, so that the user of terminal
can immediately
identify the character operation object, and the user of the terminal can
rapidly select the
character operation object having an obvious distinguishing feature in a
subsequent operation.
[0109] A person skilled in the art should understand that functions of
processing units in
the terminal in this embodiment of the present invention may be understood by
referring to
related descriptions of the information processing method. The processing
units in the
information processing terminal in this embodiment of the present invention
may be
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implemented by implementing an analog circuit having the function in this
embodiment of the
present invention or may be implemented by running software having the
function in this
embodiment of the present invention on an intelligent terminal.
Embodiment 5
[0110] Based on Embodiment 4, this embodiment of the present invention
further
provides a terminal. FIG. 13 is a schematic structural diagram of the terminal
according to
Embodiment 5 of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 13, the terminal
includes: a rendering
processing unit 61, a deployment unit 62, a detection unit 63, an operation
execution unit 64, an
obtaining unit 65, and a communications unit 66.
[0111] The rendering processing unit 61 is configured to: execute a
software application
and perform rendering, to obtain a GUI; and perform rendering in the GUI, to
obtain at least one
virtual resource object, at least one of the virtual resource object being
configured as a first
character object that performs a first virtual operation according to an input
first user command;
and being further configured to perform, according to a first display
parameter, rendering on a
character operation object detected by the detection unit 63 and associated
with the second
character object in the at least one window location.
[0112] The deployment unit 62 is configured to: deploy in such a manner
that at least one
character container object in at least one character selection area in the GUI
includes at least one
window location.
[0113] The detection unit 63 is configured to detect a second character
object that is in
the GUI and whose distance to the first character object meets a first preset
condition.
[0114] The operation execution unit 64 is configured to: perform, by the
first character
object, at least one of the first virtual operation on a corresponding second
character object when
a selection operation gesture on at least one character operation object on
which rendering is
performed according to the first display parameter and that is in the
character container object is
detected.
[0115] The obtaining unit 65 is configured to obtain status attribute
information of a
second character object in the GUI.
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[0116] The communications unit 66 is configured to: synchronize the status
attribute
information obtained by the obtaining unit 65 to a server, and obtain, from
the server, status
attribute information of a character object associated with a character
operation object in the
character container object.
[0117] In an implementation, the rendering processing unit 61 is configured
to perform,
according to the obtained status attribute information in a preset manner,
rendering on the
character operation object associated with the second character object in a
corresponding
window location.
[0118] In this embodiment, for functions of the rendering processing unit
61, the
deployment unit 62, the detection unit 63, and the operation execution unit
64, refer to
descriptions of Embodiment 4, and details are not described herein again. A
difference is that the
obtaining unit 65 obtains the status attribute information of the second
character object in the
GUI. Because the virtual space in which the first character object and the
second character object
are located may be relatively large based on a setting of the software
application, the vision
image in the GUI obtained through rendering by the terminal includes the first
character object,
and may include the second character object; and certainly, may not include
the second character
object. In this embodiment, the terminal obtains the status attribute
information of the second
character object included in the GUI, and synchronizes the corresponding
second character
object associated with the status attribute information to the server. The
status attribute
information includes, but is not limited to: a blood value, a hit point, or
the skill attribute
information of the second character object.
[0119] In this embodiment, the communications unit 66 obtains, from the
server
according to a preset rule, the status attribute information of the character
object associated with
the character operation object in the character container object, so that when
the GUI of the
terminal does not include at least some second character objects and status
attribute information
of the at least some second character objects cannot be obtained, status
attribute information of
second character objects associated with all character operation objects
included in the character
container object may be obtained by using a second character object and
associated status
attribute information that are synchronized by another terminal to the server.
The terminal and
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object controlled by the terminal and a first character object controlled by
the another terminal
belong to a same group in the game system, and a virtual operation is
performed on second
character objects that belong to another group. When the GUI of the terminal
does not include all
second character objects, a GUI of the another terminal may include at least
some second
character objects, so that based on obtained status attribute information of a
second character
object included in a GUI of at least one terminal that belongs to the same
group, status attribute
information of the second character objects is mutually synchronized.
[0120] In this embodiment, after the status attribute information of the
second character
object is obtained by the terminal and synchronized by the server, rendering
is performed, in a
preset manner in the character container object, on the character operation
object associated with
the second character object in the corresponding window location.
Specifically, referring to FIG.
9, an example in which the status attribute information is a blood value is
used. An area at an
outer circle of a character operation object (referring to the character
operation object b22 in
FIG. 9) associated with the second character object is used as a blood groove
display area b221,
and a current blood value of a corresponding second character object is
represented by using a
proportion of a blood value in the blood groove display area b221 to the blood
groove display
area. Certainly, in this embodiment of the present invention, a manner of
performing rendering
on the status attribute information in a window location corresponding to the
character operation
object associated with the second character object is not limited to what is
shown in FIG. 9.
[0121] A person skilled in the art should understand that functions of
processing units in
the terminal in this embodiment of the present invention may be understood by
referring to
related descriptions of the information processing method. The processing
units in the
information processing terminal in this embodiment of the present invention
may be
implemented by implementing an analog circuit having the function in this
embodiment of the
present invention or may be implemented by running software having the
function in this
embodiment of the present invention on an intelligent terminal.
[0122] In Embodiment 4 and Embodiment 5 of the present invention, in an
actual
application, the rendering processing unit 61, the deployment unit 62, the
detection unit 63, the
operation execution unit 64, and the obtaining unit 65 in the terminal may all
be implemented by
a central processing unit (CPU), a digital signal processor (DSP) or a field
programmable gate
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array (FPGA) in the terminal; and in an actual application, the communications
unit 66 in the
terminal may be implemented by a transceiver antenna or a communications
interface in the
terminal.
Embodiment 6
[0123] This embodiment of the present invention further provides a
terminal. The
terminal may be an electronic device such as a PC or may be a portable
electronic device such as
a tablet computer, a laptop computer, or a smartphone. A game system is
executed in the
terminal by installing a software application (such as a game application),
and the terminal
includes at least a memory for storing data and a processor for data
processing. For the processor
for data processing, during processing, a microprocessor, a CPU, a DSP, or an
FPGA may be
used for implementation. The memory includes an operation instruction, the
operation
instruction may be computer executable code, and steps in the procedure of the
information
processing method in the embodiments of the present invention are implemented
by using the
operation instruction.
[0124] FIG. 14 is a schematic structural diagram of a terminal according
to Embodiment
6 of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 14, the terminal includes: a
processor 71 and a
display 72. The processor 71 is configured to: execute a software application
and perform
rendering on the display 72, to obtain a GUI. The processor, the GUI, and the
software
application are implemented on a game system.
[0125] The processor 71 is further configured to perform rendering in the
GUI, to obtain
at least one virtual resource object, at least one of the virtual resource
object being configured as
a first character object that performs a first virtual operation according to
an input first user
command;
deploy in such a manner that at least one character container object in at
least one
character selection area in the GUI includes at least one window location;
detect a second character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to the
first
character object meets a first preset condition, and perform, according to a
first display
parameter, rendering on a detected character operation object associated with
the second
character object in the at least one window location; and
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perform, by the first character object, at least one of the first virtual
operation on a
corresponding second character object when detecting a selection operation
gesture on at least
one character operation object on which rendering is performed according to
the first display
parameter and that is in the character container object.
[0126] Specifically, the detecting, by the processor 71, a second character
object that is in
the GUI and whose distance to the first character object meets a first preset
condition includes:
detecting a second character object that is in the GUI and whose distance to
the
first character object is less than a first preset threshold.
[0127] In an implementation, the processor 71 is further configured to:
before detecting
the selection operation gesture on the at least one character operation object
on which rendering
is performed according to the first display parameter and that is in the
character container object,
detect, in second character objects whose distances to the first character
object meet the first
preset condition, at least some second character objects whose distances to
the first character
object meet a second preset condition, and perform, according to a second
display parameter,
rendering on character operation objects associated with the detected at least
some second
character objects in the at least one window location, where a display effect
obtained by
performing rendering according to the second display parameter is different
from a display effect
obtained by performing rendering according to the first display parameter.
[0128] Specifically, the detecting, by the processor 71 in second character
objects whose
distances to the first character object meet the first preset condition, at
least some second
character objects whose distances to the first character object meet a second
preset condition
includes:
detecting, in the second character objects whose distances to the first
character
object meet the first preset condition, a second character object whose
distance to the first
character object reaches a second preset threshold, where the second preset
threshold is greater
than or equal to the first preset threshold.
[0129] In an implementation, the terminal further includes a communications
device 74.
[0130] The processor 71 is further configured to: obtain status attribute
information of a
second character object in the GUI, and synchronize the status attribute
information to a server
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by using the communications device 74; and obtain, from the server by using
the
communications interface, status attribute information of a character object
associated with a
character operation object in the character container object.
[0131] Correspondingly, the processor 71 is further configured to perform,
according to
the obtained status attribute information in a preset manner, rendering on the
character operation
object associated with the second character object in a corresponding window
location.
[0132] In this embodiment, the terminal includes: the processor 71, the
display 72, a
memory 73, an input device 76, a bus 75, and the communications device 74. The
processor 71,
the memory 73, the input device 76, the display 72, and the communications
device 74 are all
connected by using the bus 75, and the bus 75 is configured to transmit data
between the
processor 71, the memory 73, the display 72, and the communications device 74.
[0133] The input device 76 is mainly configured to obtain an input
operation of a user,
and the input device 76 may vary with the terminal. For example, when the
terminal is a PC, the
input device 76 may be an input device 76 such as a mouse or a keyboard; when
the terminal is
portable device such as a smartphone or a tablet computer, the input device 76
may be a
touchscreen.
[0134] In this embodiment, a computer storage medium is stored in the
memory 73, a
computer executable instruction is stored in the computer storage medium, and
the computer
executable instruction is configured to perform the information processing
method in the
embodiments of the present invention.
[0135] In the several embodiments provided in this application, it should
be understood
that the disclosed device and method may be implemented in other manners. The
described
device embodiments are merely examples. For example, the unit division is
merely logical
function division and may be other division during actual implementation. For
example, multiple
units or components may be combined or integrated into another system, or some
features may
be ignored or not performed. In addition, the displayed or discussed mutual
couplings or direct
couplings or communication connections between constituent parts may be
implemented through
some interfaces. The indirect couplings or communication connections between
the devices or
units may be implemented in electronic, mechanic, or other forms.
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[01361 The units described as separate parts may or may not be physically
separate, and
parts displayed as units may or may not be physical units, may be located in
one location, or may
be distributed on multiple network units. Some or all of the units may be
selected according to
actual needs to achieve the objectives of the solutions of the embodiments.
[0137] In addition, the functional units in the embodiments of the present
invention may
all be integrated into one processing unit, or each of the units may exist
separately, or two or
more units are integrated into one unit, and the integrated unit may be
implemented in a form of
hardware, or may be implemented in a form of hardware in addition to a
software functional unit.
[0138] A person of ordinary skill in the art may understand that all or
some of the steps
of the method embodiments may be implemented by a program instructing relevant
hardware.
The program may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. When the
program runs, the
steps of the method embodiments are performed. The foregoing storage medium
includes: any
medium that can store program code, such as a portable storage device, a read-
only memory
(ROM), a random access memory (RAM), a magnetic disk, or an optical disc.
[0139] Alternatively, in the present disclosure, when the integrated unit
is implemented
in a form of a software functional module and sold or used as an independent
product, the
integrated unit may be stored in a computer-readable storage medium. Based on
such an
understanding, the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present
invention essentially, or
the part contributing to the existing technology may be implemented in a form
of a software
product. The computer software product is stored in a storage medium, and
includes several
instructions for instructing a computer device (which may be a personal
computer, a server, or a
network device) to perform all or some of the steps of the methods described
in the embodiments
of the present invention. The foregoing storage medium includes: any medium
that can store
program code, such as a portable storage device, a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic
disk, or an optical
disc.
[0140] The foregoing descriptions are merely specific implementations of
the present
disclosure, but are not intended to limit the protection scope of the present
disclosure. Any
variation or replacement readily figured out by a person skilled in the art
within the technical
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disclosure. Therefore, the protection scope of the present disclosure shall be
subject to the
protection scope of the claims.
[0141] Industrial applicability
[0142] In the embodiments of the present invention, by means of a window
location in a
character container object deployed in a character selection area in a GUI,
rendering is
performed, in a corresponding window location, on a character operation object
associated with a
second character object that performs information exchange with a first
character object, and
rendering is performed, according to a first display parameter, on a character
operation object
associated with a second character object whose distance to the first
character object meets a first
preset condition, that is, rendering is performed, according to the first
display parameter, on a UI
avatar associated with the second character object whose distance to the first
character object
meets a first preset condition, so that the UI avatar has a display effect
that is different from that
of another UI avatar, and when a user selects a target character operation
object, it is convenient
for the user to rapidly and accurately select a target character object based
on the different
display effect by means of a selection operation gesture on the character
operation object,
thereby greatly improving operation experience of the user in an interaction
process.
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